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Charles Bernstein, Dark City (Sun and Moon Classics, 1994)Charles Bernstein, erstwhile co-editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, one of the most influential poetry magazines ever to come out of New York, gives us his twentieth book. And a marvel of inconsistency it is. While there are a few flashes of brilliance, a great image here or there, a turn of phrase that demands re-reading, the majority of the book falls into the category of either "meaningless line breaks in the middle of words," "giving too much
I think this was the first book of "Language Poetry" I read, unless it was Perelman's "Virtual Reality." Life-changing.